US4894936A - System for the simulation of human movements in a puppet show, procedure for programming such a system and a puppet show so obtained - Google Patents

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US4894936A
US4894936A US07/236,301 US23630188A US4894936A US 4894936 A US4894936 A US 4894936A US 23630188 A US23630188 A US 23630188A US 4894936 A US4894936 A US 4894936A
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Marinus J. L. Van Heumen
Hendricus Smulders
Antoni N. J. Merkx
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
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  • the invention relates to a system for the simulation of human movements of a puppet as used in a programmable puppet show, in which the puppet is provided with mutually hingeable parts of the body.
  • the invention also relates to a procedure for the programming of such a system as well as to a puppet show obtained by application of the system and programmed according to the procedure.
  • the invention results from an awareness that far better, more natural looking effects can be realized at a fraction of the other requisite capital expenditure.
  • the invention is characterized in that it features a number of cam disks to be driven synchronously by a motor, each of which can be followed by a roll attached to one end of a lever, whilst the other end of the lever is connected to a Bowden cable capable of transmitting the movement of the lever to a mechanical construction which can cause a part of the body to perform a desired movement.
  • cam disks in question are preferably mounted on a shaft supported on a solid frame to which the driving motor has also been fitted and which is disposed under or close to the puppet, whilst it is moreover possible for the shaft to carry cam disks of other parts of a puppet show such as another puppet.
  • a procedure which is characterized in that instead of a cam disk a disk covered with a writing material and instead of a roll following the cam disk a stylus is mounted, the disk is driven at the normal following speed and a limb of the puppet construction whose movement must be programmed is manually shifted, which motion is transmitted through the Bowden-cable connection to the stylus which traces a curve on the disk, and it is on this basis that the cam disk can be produced.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified diagram of the drive mechanism for a part of the body
  • FIG. 2 is a simplified diagram of a movable puppet from a puppet show
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b together schematically show the programming (tracing of a cam disk) in side and in plan view;
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are a front and a side view of a coupling member for a shoulder joint.
  • FIG. 6 depicts a pivoting coupling in a chain.
  • the cam disk 1 represented in FIG. 1 is one out of a number of disks mounted on a shaft 2 which is driven by a motor 3 provided with a reducing gear. The whole is installed in a frame 12. The outer circumference of each cam disk 1 is followed by a roll 4 attached to the end of a lever 6.
  • the rolls 4 are preferably made in nylon.
  • the lever 6 is hingeably fixed to the frame 12 at a point 5.
  • the roll 4 is steadily depressed on the cam disk 1 by means of a tension spring 8.
  • the lever 6 is fastened to the inner sliding wire 9 of a Bowden cable whose sheathing 11 is immovably secured in place.
  • the wire 9 can be actuated by causing the lever 6 to perform translational motions in the direction 10, which are used to move some part of a puppet's body.
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows a puppet with the joints 13-19 which are to be moved.
  • These joints are rotatable around two or three axes and for each movement a separate Bowden cable is required and an individual cam disk must be present.
  • the shoulder joints 16 and 17 are of particular interest and the special construction used for them will be described in more detail hereinafter.
  • the above-mentioned shoulder construction 17 can be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
  • the construction comprises a part 23 which is permanently attached to the frame of the puppet and which supports a part 24 connected to the arm of the puppet, part 24 pivoting on part 23.
  • Part 24 is substantially forked and forms a whole with a barrel 26 which accommodates bearing bushes 27 and 28.
  • Part 25 supports the barrel 26 and forms one unit with the part 23.
  • a sprocket wheel 29 is attached to the part 23 and acts in conjunction with a sprocket wheel 30 connected to the rotatable part 24, 26.
  • a chain 31 can be laid over these wheels 29 and 30, which chain is at one end connected to the wire end of a Bowden cable 32.
  • the part 24, 26 is linked up with the arm of a puppet (not shown), so that upon movement of the cable 32 the arm will move from front to back and vice versa. Furthermore, in the barrel 26 a sprocket wheel 30 is journalled which interacts with a sprocket wheel 34 journalled in the forked part 35 of the rotatable part 24.
  • a part of chain 37 is permanently fixed to the sprocket wheel 34 by means of a bolt 36 and is connected by means of a pivoting coupling 38 to a second chain section 39 which has been passed over the wheel 33 and which links up with a Bowden cable (not shown). A movement of this cable will cause the arm to swing out.
  • the pivoting coupling 38 is required because the axles of the wheels 33 and 34 are mutually rotatable.
  • the pivoting coupling is represented in FIG. 6. It comprises a coupling element 40 linked to the chain 39 and a coupling element 41 linked to the chain 37. Between the two coupling elements 40 and 41 there is an axial ball bearing 42 of which one ring rests against a ring 43 mounted within the element 40, whilst the second bearing ring rests against a collar of a bolt 44 which has been screwed into the element 41.
  • the coupling so obtained is free from play in axial direction, but renders the two chain sections 37 and 39 freely rotatable inter se.
  • the invention also encompasses an individual puppet for a programmable puppet show which is provided according to the invention with Bowden cables intended to be operated by mechanisms outside the puppet.
  • driving mechanisms may, according to the invention, consist of cam disks or curvilinear disks, motor-driven spindles, hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders.
  • the invention presents the advantage that several curvilinear disks and, in consequence, the movements of several Bowden cables can be programmed simultaneously.
  • the shoulder construction according to the invention makes it possible to turn the arm through a wider angle than can be achieved with other constructions.

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CN107481648A (zh) * 2017-08-11 2017-12-15 新乡学院 一种轮廓曲线可变的凸轮驱动动画装置

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